High costs, property prices and stifling regulations have, along with Covid, damaged the city’s vibrant club scene

Balanced between a chair on the floor and a dresser stuck to the ceiling, Jordi Ariza Gallego looks around the top room of his club. This Alice-in-Wonderland exhibit is “backstage”; next door is a barber. Below, people are eating in an Indonesian restaurant. The crowded ground floor is showing one-minute erotic films from the Dutch publisher of Butt magazine.

“It’s like a house party, and everyone can visit a different floor,” said the curator behind this arts-cum-party foundation. “I love it that it’s so confusing!”